ROLLA, Mo. (KMIZ) A former Phelps County Sheriff’s Deputy pleaded guilty on Thursday in federal court to child sex crimes, a release from the Department of Justice says. The release says Justin Bradley Durham, 43, of Rolla, admitted to “engaging in sex acts with a minor, requesting and receiving child pornography and destroying evidence to impede
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ROLLA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Rolla man was charged with child enticement in Phelps County on Saturday. David Hadley, 24, was arrested on Friday and is being held at the Phelps County Jail on a $250,000 bond. A confined docket hearing is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. Tuesday. According to the probable cause statement, a representative from
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PHELPS COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Rolla man was killed in a motorcycle crash in Phelps County on Tuesday night. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s crash report, Steven MacCash, 49, was traveling eastbound on County Road 7340 at 10:04 p.m. on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle when he struck a deer in the road. MacCash was
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PHELPS COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A 22-year-old Steelville man was killed in a two-vehicle crash in Phelps County Thursday afternoon. Troopers said the crash happened on Highway 63 near County Road 6220 at 2:15 p.m. when Gabriel Peak crossed the center line traveling into the northbound lane. According to the report, Peak was driving a 2008
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ST. JAMES, Mo. (KMIZ) A woman from St. James was killed after being involved in a single-vehicle crash on Tuesday afternoon. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Debra Patton, 64, of St. James was driving westbound on Highway 8, two miles from city limits at 2:48 p.m. when the crash happened. Troopers said Patton
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A Rolla man was charged Monday with eight counts of possessing child pornography in an investigation that began in late June.
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PHELPS COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) An arson suspect is hospitalized after being shot by a Phelps County Sheriff’s deputy. According to the Phelps County Sheriff’s Department, Central Communications received a call on Saturday at 2:20 p.m. about several structures and vehicles intentionally set on fire in the southwestern part of the county. The caller also stated
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ROLLA, Mo. (KMIZ) An Illinois woman was seriously injured Wednesday in a two-vehicle crash in Phelps County. The crash happened in the northbound lane of Highway 63, about seven miles south of Rolla, a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report says. According to the report, the crash occurred when a 2021 Ram 5500 – driven
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Editor’s note: This article has been updated to say the injured girl was wearing a helmet. PHELPS COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A 13-year-old girl from Newburg was seriously injured in an ATV crash in Phelps County on Sunday morning. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports the crash happened on County Road 7210 and County Road 7240
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Hundreds of electric cooperative members lost power as storms moved through parts of mid-Missouri on Thursday night.
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PHELPS COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A 64-year-old Rolla man was seriously hurt in a single-vehicle crash in Phelps County on Monday evening. According to the online crash report, Guy Clayton was traveling northbound on Highway A north of Ridgetop Drive at 7:50 p.m. when his 2023 F-150 went off the left side of the road. The
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ROLLA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Newburg man was seriously injured in a single-vehicle crash Sunday on Doolittle Outer Road 1 in Phelps County, east of Route T, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. According to the report, the crash occurred as a 2009 Hyundai Sonata – driven by Jerime Lister, 40 – was
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PHELPS COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) An ATV crash in Phelps County Sunday evening sent a Rolla man to the hospital. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported the crash happened on private property near County Road 3140 at 5:30 p.m. According to the online crash report, a 2005 Honda Rancher driven by Randy Romine, 69, overturned, ejected
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PHELPS COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Two people were flown to University Hospital Thursday evening following an ATV crash in Phelps County. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported the crash happened on County Road 7240 near U.S. 63 at 7:40 p.m. Troopers say a ATV driven by Jabarie McCoy, 21, overturned on private property. McCoy and his
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A Illinois man was seriously injured in motorcycle crash in Phelps County Saturday afternoon.
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A Canadian man was flown to University Hospital in Columbia after a semi rolled over on Interstate 44 in Phelps County.
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ROLLA, Mo. (KMIZ) An Illinois man was seriously injured Monday in a crash on Highway 63 about two miles south of Rolla, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. According to the report, a Nissan Murano – driven by Paul Dietrich, 71, of Fairview Heights, Illinois – was heading northbound on Highway 63.
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ROLLA, Mo. (KMIZ) A pharmacy employee was shot on Wednesday during a robbery, the Rolla Police Department wrote on its Facebook page. Police arrested Justin Wonsewitz, 41, of Rolla, following a chase on suspicion of first-degree assault, first-degree robbery and armed criminal action. Official charges have not yet been filed. Police wrote that officers were
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MARIES COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) – An 86-year-old man drowned on Saturday at a Maries County lake. The Missouri State Highway Patrol said Warren Cooper of Dixon drowned in the Rinquelin Trail Lake Conservation Area around 4:15 p.m. The drowning report said Cooper fell into the water when he slipped on the boat ramp while getting
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PHELPS COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Cuba, Missouri, man was charged with two felonies after he was accused of sexually assaulting a child in Phelps County. Shane Mullins, 29, was charged with two counts of child enticement of an actor who is 21 years old and a child younger than 15 years old. He is being
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